Cybersecurity Architect - Threat and Vulnerability Management

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Telemedicine

Mental health resources

Paid vacation

Paid sick time

Parental leave

Educational assistance

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Nashville is seeking a Cybersecurity Architect to lead secure design across enterprise, SaaS, and cloud environments. You will drive reference architectures and secure-by-design principles, translating adversarial findings into actionable improvements and guiding the security program.

The role blends Red and Blue team insights, focusing on Zero Trust, identity security, and scalable security controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, or related field.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity, with 2–3 years in architecture or senior roles.
• Hands-on cyber threat and offensive security experience.
• Strong knowledge of networks and cloud security.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience mapping to MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO27001, CIS, OWASP.
• Experience integrating SOAR, SIEM, vulnerability scanning, threat feeds.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise security architecture with secure-by-design principles.
• Lead secure design patterns and reference architectures for cloud-native and SaaS.
• Translate adversarial findings into architectural improvements and detections.
• Plan Purple Team exercises to validate controls across infra and SaaS.
• Develop threat models for SaaS, APIs, and identity flows.
• Enforce security standards for SaaS adoption and third-party integrations.
• Map MITRE ATT&CK to logging, alerting, and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams for secure config and compliance.
• Conduct architecture risk assessments and remediation aligned to risk tolerance.
• Mentor engineers on secure design principles and adversarial thinking.

Skills

Secure design principles

Threat modeling

Adversarial thinking

MITRE ATT&CK knowledge

Cloud security

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/JS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

SIEM/SOAR

Red Team tooling

OAuth/API security

Job description

About the Role

The Cybersecurity Architect will join the Purple Team, responsible for designing, validating, and continuously evolving enterprise security architecture in alignment with real-world adversarial threats. This role operates at the intersection of offensive and defensive security, leveraging Red Team insights and Blue Team capabilities to ensure systems are secure by design, resilient by default, and continuously tested against emerging attack techniques. As a key leader in the security organisation, the Cybersecurity Architect will drive secure design principles, reference architectures, and security standards across a modern, SaaS-enabled and cloud-first ecosystem, including complex identity flows, third-party integrations, APIs, and distributed systems. The role requires balancing technical depth and strategic influence, translating complex threats into actionable architectural improvements and guiding the organisation toward Zero Trust and secure-by-design maturity. Success is measured by the organisation's ability to prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated threats, and by the strength and scalability of its security architecture across enterprise and SaaS environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise security architecture with a strong emphasis on secure-by-design principles, ensuring security is embedded early in system and application lifecycles.
• Lead the development and adoption of secure design patterns and reference architectures, particularly for cloud-native and SaaS-based environments.
• Act as a key liaison between Red Team and Blue Team, translating adversarial findings into architectural improvements, detection use cases, and resilient system designs.
• Plan and execute Purple Team exercises to validate security controls across infrastructure, applications, and SaaS platforms, ensuring visibility and response capabilities are effective.
• Develop and maintain threat models for critical systems, including SaaS integrations, APIs, and identity flows, identifying attack paths and prioritising mitigations.
• Define and enforce security architecture standards for SaaS adoption, and assess and secure SaaS ecosystems including third-party integrations, OAuth applications, and API exposure risks.
• Evaluate and recommend controls for modern architectures, including Zero Trust, microservices, containers, and serverless environments, and drive improvements in detection engineering by mapping adversary TTPs (e.g., via MITRE ATT&CK) to logging, alerting, and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to ensure secure configuration and continuous compliance across SaaS and IaaS environments.
• Conduct architecture risk assessments and provide actionable remediation strategies aligned with business risk tolerance, and promote security observability across SaaS platforms through proper logging, telemetry, and SIEM/SOAR integration.
• Mentor engineers and architects on secure design principles, SaaS security risks, and adversarial thinking.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related experience.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 2–3 years in architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Hands‑on experience in Cyber Threat and Offensive Security operations to test and validate the effective operation of security controls, measuring the ability to stop threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain.
• Strong knowledge of network security, cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), and enterprise architectures.
• Strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, cloud applications and infrastructure, along with an advanced understanding of the key controls required for secure operation of these systems.
• Experience scripting in at least one of the following languages: PowerShell, Python, JavaScript.
• Experience in aligning threat and vulnerability management efforts to frameworks and control objectives such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO27001, Centre for Internet Security, and OWASP.
• Experience integrating Security Orchestration Automation and Response, Security Information and Event Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Security Threat Feeds, and Red Team Tooling into a successful threat and vulnerability program.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and modern identity security practices.

Workplace

• This role is hybrid, based in our Nashville office.

Salary

• Eligible for a discretionary bonus.
• Wages may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria.

Benefits & Perks

• Company pays 80%-100% of the cost for medical, basic life and AD&D insurance, telemedicine, employee assistance and mental health counseling, paid vacation/holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave and other paid leaves of absence, NICU leave, bereavement resources, adoption benefits, educational assistance, mental health resources, and employee assistance plan.
• Medical
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Telemedicine
• Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text
• Paid Vacation / Holidays
• Paid Sick Time
• Paid Parental Leave and Other Paid Leaves of Absence
• NICU leave
• Bereavement resources
• Adoption Benefits
• Educational Assistance

About the Company

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.